There is nothing much to say here. Just wanted to show the excellence
of our Muslim Forefathers with a few pages of beautiful work they left behind.
These items are not for sale, they really shouldn't be. However, through
neglect, and outright disregard for Islamic knowledge, these priceless
manuscripts had been sold for mere pennies to traders from Universities from
all over the western world where they are being well taken care of. It's
frightening to consider that Muslim sheep herders of Qumran (Palestine) had
found the controversial Christian Dead Sea Scrolls which had not been seen for
over 1800 years or so. Without thinking they sold them to Armenian traders, who
sold them to the Catholic Church, who worked with the Israeli Government
to find their meaning, and hid them from the public. Had the Muslims cherished
this little piece of information it would have unlocked many doors. Allah
knows best. Sheikh Muhammad al Yacoubi of Damascus, got a chance to visit
one such University Library at Princeton, N.J. He said, "The non-Muslims
took such excellent care of books which we had taken for granted. They even
had a Musf from 750 C.E. which had been preserved in a hyperbaric chamber.
The state of Sacred Knowledge in our Muslim society reflects the current
state affairs. It was pointed out by the Prophet(salla..) that toward the
end of time, Religious knowledge would disappear. Many narrations point
out that while Allah's knowledge wouldn't disappear, it would disappear
from the hearts of our ummah yet be preserved through means beyond our control.
Those who honestly preserve this sacred knowledge in themselves will be
preserved by Allah both here and more importantly, in the Yaum al Qiyyamah".